I’ve got a really strange quirk with my internet connection that I have ideas about, but can’t find any information about similar issues. On my desktop I am connected through a wireless PCI card, a RaLink R3062 or R3562. I am using the Ralink supplied software to manage the connection called RaUI. It runs fine most of the time, and is always 100% when just surfing the web, playing games, or in the middle of a streaming video. It has issues with randomly dropping when I open a browser or start a streaming video, it will look fine for a few seconds, or load a few seconds of a video, and then just drop, and most of the time it requires me to go in and reset the connection through the software.

The only hardware part that could be causing this is that I broke the connector for the antenna that connects to the PCI card, but that is jerry rigged to hold the broken cable to the connection, and seems to work fine. Is this simply and issue of bad connection management software? Is there perhaps another issue? Thanks for any advice.

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